So I am rehabilitating this baby fledgling that I found near my car. It appeared to be abandoned by its mother. Unfortunately, it doesn't follow my direction very well (in regards to feeding), hardly responds to anything I do and does not seem strong enough to survive my care.

So yesterday I noticed this bird next to my car, which was parallel parked near my house. I didn't think anything of it. I came back two hours later it was still there and I noticed cars that were attempting to parallel park were having to dodge it and were coming pretty close to hitting it. I lightly moved it closer to the street. I went back outside a few hours later to take my dog out and saw it was still there in the exact same spot I moved it to. I decided to scoop it up and take it in my house and figure out what to do with it.

I call my vet, they said they don't deal with wildlife but referred me to some wildlife rehabilitation centers in the Chicago area to call. I called a few and they referred me to two people who specifically handle rehabilitating these birds (this type of bird is a protected bird here in Chicago, called a Common Starling). Unfortunately due to the holiday weekend these people told me that they were unable to take in the bird until Monday. They advised me to either put it in a bush and hope for the best or attempt to take care of it until then. Being as I am such a nice guy, I decided to try and care for it until one of these centers is open to take it.

After googling stuff and making a few pet-store runs I have acquired the necessary materials to attempt to care for this bird until I can deliver it to this lady on Monday.

Edit: I have decided to begin accepting donations to help get the bird to Quakecon.

Interesting interpretation, but no. We could think that "I have been an animal lover all my life." is for him an explanation of his interactions with sparks... the (black) man rather than the bird. But I prefer to believe that's not the case.

I tried to save a bird from a hawk before that got caught outside my bedroom window. At first I took a photo then realised the little bird was still alive so started throwing coins/pen lids in the direction of the hawk to try & scare it off. It flew away for a short while but once the little bird started to fly it cut it off & finished the job in my next door neighbours garden =[[

If you looked at the human race from a petri dish, you would see nothing more than than fungus clambering, eating and killing each other, while gravitating towards two occurrences of motivation, which is MONEY (capitalism) or RELIGION. Both of which are entirely man made entities which stem from greed. Greed to needlessly own things be that possessions, or greed to control peoples belief system and their minds.
Both of which will lead to destruction when money runs out, of when religions conflict, as is already happening and has been for some time.
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Greed is the only thing which powers society on the whole.

Of course there are exceptions, but they are just exceptions.

I fail to look at society as a whole and think its really going to make it in the grand scheme of things.

If you pay attention, it's always people that accomplished nothing in their lives that comes out with those kind of statements (humanity should just die).

People that spend their entire lives in front of a screen, or doing shitty jobs, people that are generally unable to make, keep and enjoy friends in real life, people unsatisfied with their bodies, their partners and their income.

No problem, those people are entitled to their opinions, but not to be taken seriously, and most importantly, if they'd be really coherent and really believed in what they said, they would kill themself.

But guess what, they never do it, they drags on and on and keep whining. Or maybe they don't consider themself cancers, only everyone else.

Is admitting the truth so offensive? No one said the human race should just die. The statement itself is just that, a statement. You can perceive it negatively or positively. Everyone knows humans are capable of taking care of their own and making choices that benefit all.

On the opposite side of the bias coin, telling people they should kill themselves for thinking differently is a much more depraved response - indifference with intolerance - especially when inspired from a simple statement that is harmless and opens up doors for discussion. Even if the statement is cliche and annoys you greatly, telling someone to kill themselves is foolish behavior.

"Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
-Gandalf

I never said he should die because he has a different opinion, that's what esr and quake live forum admins are for.

I just said that all those people claiming we're cancer, should terminate their pathetic existences if they'd truly be coherent and honest.

The fact that they never do, and instead keep polluting the internet, clearly shows that they only think "other people" are cancer, probably due to envy and dissatisfaction about their own personal life.

I just said that all those people claiming we're cancer, should terminate their pathetic existences if they'd truly be coherent and honest.

Where's the coherence with that? That makes no sense to me. If a tumor gained sentience and realized it was cancer, would it kill itself? That wouldn't be coherent with that it is : cancer. What's your logic behind this thought?

Being able to analyze the existence of your own species and make such an observation about its future (even if its detrimental to its survival) is really the only true sign of intelligence, as most of the other stuff is just man made.

The average person in the world is nothing to be envious of :)

Why else do you think we have celebs and famous people, because most of us are nobodies who don't live the life we want.

If you looked at the world from above, and seen the impact people have on it, and themselves, you would see little difference between that, and a cancer growing on a vital organ.

Humans are the only species on the planet making the world a worse place, for every other species, do you really think people are that important they are more important than every other living organism under the sun.

Look at things from their perspective?

You have this growing species which is wiping out their own planet and each other. And your little brain thinks this is all because I'm jealous of the average nobody on the street, who works a job they hate and is stuck in a relationship that will probably end in divorce or be riddled with affairs.

society is pretty fucked and so is our treatment of the planet. the powers that be and the large majority of the human race have a lack of appreciation, seem ignorant or just dont care about the delicate balance that our planet has as an ecosystem. it is not only going to damage us but also the way earth is in it's current ecological state. that being said, no matter what happens to the human race, earth will 'recover' and carry on and slowly every trace of our existence will be removed. so really the analogy that humans are a temporary 'cancer' is somewhat plausible.

If you take the philosophical standpoint of a rationalist, then yes, it is a purely deliberate and conscious decision. But iirc (unless I mix you up with someone else), you earned a degree in psychology so you know the rationalist view is limited here.

To be able to care you at least have to understand the relevance of it, which means seeing beyond individual actions ("who cares if I throw this plastic can in the river, the river is so big it won't even matter") and perceiving the bigger picture. I question that average Joe possesses this ability.

And second, if you look at poor people in India for example, they might understand the relevance of protecting our ecosystem but other things are of higher importance for them, like earning enough money so their family won't starve this month.

mrk from track5 is seen here using the OGC bot and wallhack. Several people have had suspicions of his cheating for a few months now, but they generally never pursued it b/c it was not publicly known that cheating was possible in OSP at the time. Thanks to the recent outpouring of news/demos on the OGC bot, it was only a matter of time before he was caught.

It gets better though. When word started to spread on ETG that mrk got caught, he wrote an article on cached.net under the alias account 'stickmaN_' discussing the paranoia in players now and the recent trend of good players getting accused of botting. He went on to say that he joined a server while 'some guy mrk' was being called a bot, but that he knows mrk is a top dueler and would never cheat etc. What he didn't realize is that some people remembered that mrk had posted on websites before as stickmaN_, and let him know in the comments. At that time, he decided to remove the article from cached.net. You can read this article here: http://www.jewfish.org/files/track5-clock.html

If you're going to dig up the past about me cheating atleast find the right articles. All that mrk vs vakal and stickmaN_ stuff was proven to be fabricated by a player named sony and his cronies. There were huge posts disproving it that the cached.net admins got involved in proving so.

The main ogc accusations/"smoking gun" came from a totally separate instance and totally separate demo, well before the above mentioned, false, scenario was ever presented.

This was also in 2001 when I was something like 14 years old

I mean from one asshole to another I can appreciate what you're trying to do here, but at the end of the day you're like 6 international first place LAN finishes, tens of thousands of dollars and 14-15 years too late.

I feel like you are trying to divert peoples attention away from this incredible deed I have chosen to do, which is quite unfortunate. Sparks is starting to really respond to me and I'm going to be sad to see her go.

Its weird (sort of) but animal hospitals won't take in injured wildlife. You have to find and send them to wildlife rehab centers or find individuals who specialize in caring for w/e wild animal you have come across. My vet straight up turned me away, bird in hand.

it was xou, he nuked 2 of my posts because i said "CY KAPOW ER" (common meme from dota2 twitch chats. "KAPOW" is an emote, "cyka" is a common cuss word in russian (i think), the "ER" ties together the emote in "POWER". then i referred to someone as "found esr fuckboi named him _____", he thought that very disrespectful, even tho that person in question gave 0 indication of feeling hurt or disrespected.

cl0ck you did the right thing there. People should live by one simple rule, that every creature has a right to live and I think you did a very good thing by taking care of the bird.
I took care of an abandoned bird myself once, but it was seriously injured after a cat attacked it, so the vet said there is no chance for it to live.

I dont know what's worse, the cocky attitude or the fact that people in here are too fucking dumb to actually check the IP address. If you would have checked, you would have realised that the IPs are different.
So nice fail there

Yes I do eat meat, but I eat meat only from breeding cattles which are cultivated for meatconsumption mainly, I dont eat any sort of wild animals.
You might argue that it doesn't back up my arguement in the first place, well yes kind of, but atleast I am trying to find a middleway, and not eating every meat that`s out there.
I thought about going vegetarian alot of times, but I am not satisfied with meat replacement products, so that's my way of handling the situation.

So there is no easy way to do this and I am a fan of ripping off the band-aid. We have decided to release you from the website in order to acquire sparks. The decision was solely based on a clear conflict of personalities within the forums and has absolutely nothing to do with your posts. As far as your posting skills, you strengthened us way more than we even thought you would after asking you to join.

The decision to let you go from esreality is more or less stemming from what we feel is an irreconcilable discrepancy surrounding general, fundamental trolling strategy, and our varying viewpoints. I should be clear in saying that in stating this we do not feel as though we are right and you are wrong, we just feel like there is a clear inability to honestly and whole heartedly come to an agreement on the best way to approach our posting and trolling. We also do cba to rectify it.

In regards to you still being able to post about Quakecon- I'm quite confident that the team liquid forums would be more than happy to take you in.

I hope there is no hard feelings, I (we) really do respect you as a poster, and think you are a great one at that.

Yeah, some weeks back I stumbled upon 3 birds. At first it looked like they were all hurt somewhat so I took them in. Turns out they were just faking it and one day just suddenly decided to start shitting all over everything and everyone. Really crazy. I thought they were nice creatures, but apparently they're not.

I would've accepted that. But, it got so bad that I had to move. It felt like I was being kicked out. The worst part was that it was almost as they were mocking me because my way of living wasn't as good as theirs. Birds are evil.